video for your media project free video down to our t.v. dot com. a day of reckoning for the egyptian president as millions take to the streets demanding hear and by choose day after a disastrous year in office that's brought the country to its knees. you're a crowd threw up in arms over the sheer scale of washington spying against them as revealed in leaked documents calling it a throwback to the cold war meanwhile venezuela hints at possible asylum for the man behind those revelations edward snowden. britain's biotech dr downing street. g.m. food despite a wall of outrage from activists and health organizations you say politicians and corporations are treating consumers like guinea pigs.

hello good morning you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me. now egypt's protest movement has given the president and automates a step down by choose stay or face a mass rebellion some twenty million citizens have flooded cities across the nation in a show of frustration mohamad morsi is failure to keep the promises he made when he came to power a year ago at least seven people have been killed and more than six hundred injured during the rally so. true reports now from cairo. millions of egyptians came down to the streets in nationwide protest against president mohamed morsi on sunday the first anniversary of his term in office international news outlets actually said this could be the largest demonstration seen in the history of the certainly in the capital at this march is stretched out its words the horizon as

they descended on the free square and the president who promised scenes of the free square and the presence of others behind me on sunday he would largely peaceful however there was an episode and it binds to was the muslim brotherhood that had called to see the pulse of the streets of the capital about five hundred people were supposedly and came to the building and attacked it with mona talks and ropes security forces with their part and to contain the violence firing tear gas canisters and this is led to reports that the for the president himself may have left to become brittle as to the security reasons to spokesperson spoke on behalf of the presidency makes it on the evening saying that gets the presidency make mistakes it would be a very difficult doing but called on the opposition to have dialogue this is unlikely to happen as opposition forces have already said in numerous statements that enough is enough they don't want to die you know they don't believe that

president mohamed morsi is fit to who makes my protests with full force by law streets initiative from models of rebel who said they'd like to twenty two million signatures calling for the ousted president they said that is too many homes in the country is a failing economy worsening fuel and water shortages at a y.c. rich prices as well as human rights abuses and that he needs to resign now and they actually are reportedly a giving him a deadline to choose they fight the end they say he must resign by this is really a divided egypt and with two different sides who are on going to back down meanwhile just a few kilometers away from the presidential palace where mass demonstrations are happening against the president those who supports president a. ahmed mostly not the only demonstration by the islamic and millions a coalition of islamist parties in support of the president i mean when i say shamisen but it's they said the president was democratically elected and that's cool the only way to release him from office is through the elections if the demonstration legitimacy is

a red line and slam the opposition forces including tomorrow as being dogs and it just amidst all these divisions increasing across the country and violence rising people and that this situation is not going to end anytime soon and that was egypt's calm. political activists are good says morsi has betrayed the ideas of the revolution. the people statement is regardless of the political process its people's will that is outs and that will be here against anyone who thinks they can hijack this revolution mercy never fulfilled any of his promises made even his own elections program so that people you know voting for him as no man get funded because he's never fulfilled those promises he came to any early elections vishy came through revolution and he did not respect the revolution that put them there the other thing is that i would like to see very much a unified none fragmented opposition that can negotiate with

a cutting government a smooth transition and a peaceful one it's very imperative that the muslim brotherhood realize that we're going to go anywhere and that they really need to rethink their strategies and transition smoothly and give up the powers because there's no talk about credibility and legitimacy with almost any time ation out on the streets. still ahead here in our taste syria is bracing itself for a flood of american weapons amid u.s. claims the deadly call guy will only be given to so-called moderate rebel fighters but critics warn they were just prolonging the two year conflict and lead to even greater bloodshed that story coming up shortly. the fate of the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden may be decided today in moscow where venezuelan president nicolas maduro is jude to arrive the leader of the world's most oil rich nation has hinted that if snowden requests it he could be

given asylum by caracas were this is europe reels from revelations that its leaders have been victims of u.s. bugging and surveillance. has the story. edward snowden has already asked ecuador for political asylum and they're currently reviewing the request but there's speculation that the question is still far from having been decided so the second or so already granted political asylum to julian songe was wanted by the u.s. and it seems this whole story around edward snowden is creating even more problems for the relations between ecuador and the united states. force that the n.s.a. may have started intercepting ecuadorian government telecommunications after the full story would know them and apparently the country is under a lot of pressure right now from washington but when it comes to venezuela it's of recently elected president nicolas maduro who was attending this major gas

suppliers conference in the moscow he personally said that there's a great chance that snowden could get their political asylum in his country if he officially asked for it and now the former n.s.a. contractor himself is believed to be in the russian capital few arrived to the transit zone offered me to an airport around a week ago from hong kong with an invalid american passport and to the u.s. asking for his actual dition snowden so latest revelations have been published by german media which we force that the national security agency in the u.s. every month listens to around half a billion of private phone conversations in germany alone also monitors the telecommunications of e.u. leaders and senior officials as allegedly bugged the e.u. government offices including its headquarters in brussels and according to a document allegedly leaked by snowden the n.s.a. ranks the european union as a third agreed to coordinate in the same group with countries like china and saudi

arabia and all of this is forced major outrage in the e.u. with many officials saying that if these reports are true then this could be a significant blow to the relations with washington some of them fairly. to world war you were tactics and the situation is even right media leaders treat agreement between the two the worse work colleagues of billiards. while nicolas maduro will be joining the leaders of some of the world's top gas producing nations in moscow today looking at ways to keep global energy supply stable coordinated projects to balance supply and demand feature heavily at the summit at a time when the controversial practice of hydraulic fracking is upsetting the markets and the environment artie's katie pilbeam we'll have more on this a little later. while the sheer scope of america's surveillance against europe has prompted analysts to look for motives with one

intelligence expert saying it all fits into the realm of economic espionage. this is spying for economic reasons mainly it is it cannot recall espionage but to to steal national secrets from companies to to destroy jobs and to import jobs to their own countries so what the emergence of the right to do is to destroy jobs in countries like germany in countries like france where it is a reality of europe and the public is just to say well it isn't chinese to spy for economical reasons it's a russian. south korea or whatever reality or biggest enemy of the united states is the united kingdom so its allies spying against all odds and if you're interested in just a u.s. intelligence harvest and process your data you can head to r.t.

dot com for an explanation also there we've got plenty more on snowden's latest revelations and his efforts to capture we've got more news coming up in a couple minutes. obama's africa the u.s. president's trip to this continent is criticized by some as too little too late indeed washington continues to be seen by many africans as a source for outside democracy promotion and the creepy militarization of the continent obama is calling card has always been hope but is he bringing much hope to africa. languages. react to situations i have read the reports. put

the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say to mr kerry you have a car is on the docket no god. no more weasel words when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you approach one should be ready for a. printout of speech and down to freedom to cost. live.

real damage and complexity of this oil spill is not something you grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast. it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's a step forward for the oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spray. it was a it was not

a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the age you are which. is. welcome back britain is calling on the e.u. to ease its tight regulations on genetically modified food with the country's environment secretary saying g.m. farming is actually safer than many of the alternatives the government wants the widespread caution towards g.m. agriculture has to be reassessed but the prime minister stopped short of saying he would eat such products himself so let's take a look at why biotech foods also controversial genetically modified organisms which were an issue implanted into staple crops such as corn and rice and now ending up in products ranging from meat to milk and chocolates and around ninety percent of

all biotech seeds are produced by the american food giant monsanto which is causing global control to see with its aggressive expansion. in strategy the company is accused of stifling small businesses and driving farmers to desperation that economic backlash is combined with growing fears over the health implications of biotech food and g.m. activists are raising the alarm they warn of side effects ranging from simple allergies to devastating problems but environmental groups including greenpeace are playing dan those claims and they say that no harm from searching greedy is has been scientifically proven and that the most dangerous factor is the lack of information on how they really affect this war in this now from artie's. it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell the campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the

scientific community supports the technology and if it is as safe as they and the government to shore it is and the argument for g.m. food is quite compelling it would allow farmers to grow crops in tough conditions and thus help to feed hungry mouths around the world the u.s. and brazil already must have produces of the stuff the british government says the u.k. shouldn't be getting left behind but to talk more about this i'm joined by dr robert he's the founder for the alliance for natural health which campaigns against g.m. foods talked of attack there are a billion hungry mouths in the world and we're being told that this technology is safe shouldn't we embrace it in that case well if you look at all the real developments in raising eels it hasn't actually occurred through g.m. it's because for conventional we practice some of the greatest success stories even in the last five years have been related to traditional propagation techniques we've got to remember that the safety issues divided between both health effects and environmental effects and we know that the european authorities have probably

one of the most comprehensive evaluation systems compared with other parts of the world but only two crops have actually gone through the net for cultivation over fifty have been approved for consumption but of course the majority of it is given to animals and not to humans what are the risks in this case how is it dangerous to human health people use the fact that there's been a lot of g.m. produced of course a large amount of it going to animals but the u.s. population has been eating a lot of g.m. corner a lot of g.m. soy and they say well we can't see the effect we believe looking at humans as guinea pigs is not a great way of doing it particularly given the fact that we're only looking at really one or two generations of exposure why is the government so keen to develop this technology in that case and who would be bent. getting from it if they did well of course there are about a half a dozen companies that are the key players in this areas of which monsanto is the biggest and they've been putting huge pressure on governments and of course if you

look at the concerns that for example the four hundred scientists involved in the big un study i started was recent two thousand and eight that said g.m. has no role to play in feeding the poverty in the developing world they're also saying that the biggest problem is concentrating the agricultural resource and particularly seed supply in the hands of a few companies and these companies have a lot of sway with the major governments in the world including the u.k. government up to back up many thanks for your comments but as one environmental group said the british government's attempt to get g.m. food back on the menu is like flogging a dead horse and despite any of the scientific arguments for it one thing that you can't argue with is that g.m. food just doesn't have a good reputation a survey last month showed that only twenty one percent of the u.k. population supports the technology. artsy london and you can read more about this

story on our website where there's plenty more to catch up on including human rights watch sets its sights on saudi arabia the organization urges the country to keep its hands off the internet after it jailed seven people for inciting a riot test on facebook and a new military buildup in the korean peninsula as the north is reported to be beefing up its troops on the border more on that dot com. please speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on our team reporting from the world talks about six of the yard p. interviews intriguing stories for you here. in detroit the arabic to find out more. visit arabic t.v. dot com. the u.s. claims it has found a way to make sure the arms it sends to the rebels in syria won't fall into the

wrong hands this comes after leaked reports from the cia that it's about to start funneling heavy weapons to rebel fighters but he reports there's concern within the u.s. political establishment that extremist groups could be the ones to benefit. as war torn syria braces for an influx of u.s. arms some u.s. politicians ask whether president obama has carried out background checks on syrian rebels before giving them weapons this is a tweet from senator ted cruz it's a snarky comment given president obama's push for more stringent rules for gun here in the united states as for flooding syria with weapons the administration's standards may be quite different from those applied at home the obama administration claims it's familiar with the backgrounds of those the u.s. is arming in syria there are greater guarantees now that the weapons are being transferred to moderates and to directly the syrian opposition but many ask how do

you describe me degrees of moderate amid a bloody civil war where the opposition fight is riddled with horrifying execution scenes like the. evidently what happens is that. the more radical elements will have access to these weapons and that's and there's really no foolproof way of insuring against them the fear is that the libyan scenario is being set in motion again this story we as a result of both the u.s. and nato intervention in libya the unleashing of a massive cache of weapons from libya both weapons that came from the west as well as weapons that were part of kentucky's caches and then made their way across the borders into money to actually create havoc not only in mali put throughout the region u.s. politicians ability to do background checks on those who they backed has been compromised

a number of times in the past whether it was with osama bin laden or with syrian kidnappers and criminals in senator mccain's photo album his office later issued a statement saying the senator did not know the rebels by their names when he agreed to take a photo with them it shows the utter confusion and. inability to determine who the good guys or group of burgos are the obama administration claims that it decided to flood syria with more weapons because the u.s. has evidence that the syrian government has used chemical weapons the u.n. in the meantime says it has no proof as to who used chemical weapons in syria there are indications that chemical weapons went to turkey and into the hands of the almost from the united states in terms of looking at that you don't hear you don't hear a peep when the u.s. designated this one group in syria that terrorist organization the rest of the syrian opposition criticize the u.s. for that they meant it that washington reversed its decision they were thankful for

its assistance in fighting on their side and keeping that in mind one should ask are there any guarantees that those getting u.s. weapons in syria now will share america's values in washington i'm going to check out. a quick look now at some other news making headlines this hour caray share has become the twenty eighth member of the european union sparking celebrations across the country the formally war torn state has gone through several years of tough and sometimes unpopular economic reforms to become a part of the e.u. but now it's in the fifth year of recession and with one in five people out of work there are widespread public doubts over whether this new status will actually bring benefits in brazil police have clashed with protesters angry it cuts to public services in the large amounts of money being spent on sporting events thousands crowded outside a stadium where the national football team defeated spain in the confederations cup final tournament has been overshadowed by on going protests that have brought

hundreds of thousands of people into the streets over the last two weeks. at least nineteen firefighters have been confirmed dead after battling a wildfire that's been raging for the past three days in the u.s. state of arizona the blaze is dead. stated the small town of yarnell damaging buildings and forcing residents to evacuate is believed to have started with a lightning strike in a forest the flames then spreading quickly in high winds. the world's gas producing giants both nations and corporations are gathering in moscow to sift through the challenges facing the industry among them our financial troubles new technology and fracking an environmentally dubious practice that's been jumped on by u.s. energy firms artie's katie pilbeam reports on the order of the day. the world's biggest gas countries and companies have sent delegations to moscow to discuss their continued dominance of the industry now there is plenty on the agenda

including how to develop in these tough economic times along with new energy technologies and efforts to protect the environment so who are the member countries that at this summit well we can see in the blue russia is joined by a run and egypt there are thirteen members in total costs for observers in the orange that including iraq norway according to the organization the gas reserves of the member countries altogether sixty two percent of the world's natural gas reserves as for russia energy companies account for hof the value of the russian stock market gas bombs exports make up ten percent of the national total form comes at a time when liquefied natural gas is a hot topic of debate because the us is on the brink of becoming a major exporter of l.n.g. thanks to fracking lead energy through which is meant the u.s. gas prices have collapsed the design prices in the rest of the world especially

europe have jumped gas prices are now five times higher in europe than in the u.s. but environmental concerns surrounding the shale gas have been flagged up by the president of russia himself rather may have created it recently spoke of groundwater becoming contaminated by the fracking process and the high cost of production putin has also worried russia's energy companies to rise to the challenge of shell and he'll no doubt be in the dissidents at the gas forum do exactly the same in moscow today. i'll be back with more news in half and as time next though it's cross talk with pace of the bell.

south carolina is playing around with the idea of using shame plates which are license plates that can display special messages the department of motor vehicles would have complete access to all these plates and be able to display text on them like suspended uninsured amber alert or stolen you know i actually don't mind the idea of using shame as a punishment i guess it could be a real deterrent to have drunken loser written over the license plate of someone who drinks and drives in fact drugged driving plates have been in place in some states for a while but the problem is that more often than not shame penalties aren't a v. punishment for a crime but just a bonus one in my native ohio you can go to jail for three to thirty days and have your license suspended for one to three years for driving which is a brutal punishment in a country where everyone drives to work you see people are already punished for drunk driving and in america when you pay your debt to society i.e. you get out of jail you're supposed to have a clean slate but the bonus license plate suspension and possible punishment plates make this

a triple sentence ignoring the fact that the government will be able to practically display words on your person like a brand on cattle is bad enough but multiple punishments for the same crime seems like a bit of a she think to me but that's just my opinion. isn't . hello and welcome to cross for all things considered i'm peter all about obama's africa the u.s. president's trip to this continent is criticized by some as too little too late indeed washington continues to be seen by many how perkins as a source for outside democracy promotion and the creeping militarisation of the continent obama is calling card has always been hope but is he bringing much hope

to africa. to cross-talk obama's trip to africa i'm joined by richard downie in washington he is the deputy director and fellow of the africa program at the center for strategic and international studies also in washington we have clarence hussein he is a professor of international relations at the american university and in johannesburg we cross to boulder he's an advocate and member of the muslim lawyers association in south africa gentlemen crossed up rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it for us if we go to you first in south africa in johannesburg is obama bringing much hope to africa i do not see good president obama will bring any hope to this continent and i say so for one main reason president obama is morally bankrupt to the model of this world and to this end. we have legislation called the implementation of their own statute which

basically gates. into so if you can legislation and allows a so therefore you can court to try obama for war crimes or to be for him to the international criminal court and the muslim lawyers association have in this respect submitted to the prosecuting authorities in the police what is known as the obama docket and then docket essentially is for ject we have presented evidence that obama is guilty of walk crimes against humanity and genocide we have done so for. first because we believe it is our religious duty to speak out against a tyrant like obama to hold him accountable for his crimes second we have done so in order to bring justice to the victims of his envisions policy the victims of torture and detention policies such as those in. and the victims of his incineration policy when i mean when i say incineration policy i talk of using drone.